Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.

I love hard political debate and I love beating somebody on a political point but what I'm more frustrated by is the politics where you play the man not the politics.

We do students a great disservice by implying that one set of students is more important than another.

Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.

The government don't want to talk about the consequences of the choices they make. They pretend there aren't any consequences.

Maybe I was just born to argue with men.

I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks; it's what children bring into school with them.